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The company was established in 1866 as the ''British American Bank Note Company'' in Ottawa . The plant moved in Montreal in 1871 . In 1891 it merged with the ''Canada Bank Note Company'' and the ''Dominion Bank Note Company'' to form the current Canadian Bank Note Company. Until 1923 , CBN was a unit of the New York-based American Bank Note Company . It is currently based in Ottawa, Ontario .

In recent months, the Canadian Bank Note Company has been the chief-provider for the machine readable passports within the Caribbean Community bloc of countries. The majority of the new 'CARICOM passports' as they are called serve the union as a centre-piece of promoting easy travel within the Caribbean Single Market And Economy (CSME).


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